Zen Studios’ upcoming Pinball FX (more pics at their site) game offers a new kind of pinball experience for novices and experts alike via Xbox Live Arcade. It combines the arcade thrills of traditional pinball with enhanced gameplay and exciting new features not found in any other pinball game.
What does that mean, more cliché marketing talk? No, it’s actually pretty cool if you’re a pinball fan! With the power
of the Xbox 360 behind it, Pinball FX has not just high-resolution graphical detail. But unique to this game is that players can operate the flippers via their arm movements with the Xbox 360 Live Vision Camera, or can engage in head-to-head online multiplayer bouts with their friends. What’s cool here is that the latter multiplayer mode features live chat, also via the Vision Camera. Expect the game sometime in 2007, we’ll keep you updated as I’ve got some “pinball nut” friends who will be all over this.
The game’s key features are:
* Live chat via the Xbox 360 Live Vision Camera.
* Three vibrant, 3-dimensional tables provide dozens of hours of play.
* State-of-the-art physics model that surpasses the best titles in the genre.
* Tables start out simple, but new challenges open up as a player’s skill advances.
* Flipper arms can be controlled with hand/arm motions via the Xbox 360 Live Vision camera.
* Downloadable tables on Xbox Live Marketplace.
* Real-time head-to-head mode for online multiplayer competition.
* Amazing realism and polished presentation.
Here’s some gameplay footage from November 2006: